ENGLAND, ELMA, INTERVIEWEE

From The Citadel Archives Guide

Transcript of oral history interview, Charleston, S.C., 14 March 2011.
Interviewed by Rebecca Michaud, from The Citadel's Oral History Initiative.
Transcript 15 p.

Elma England was raised in Grover, SC sixty miles from Charleston. During the war she moved to Charleston to work in the Charleston Navy Yard as a welder. At the shipyard, England worked on the USS Tidewater and she was on board during the destroyer's ceremonial launch on 30 June 1945. As someone who had worked her whole life, she found it easy to make the adjustment to working at the shipyard. She was laid off after the war and went to work for the phone company.